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Effigo

PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, put off on the 22nd October to the assistance of the schooner Effigo, of Goole, which had stranded on the Newcome Sand during a strong E.

breeze. The vessel had floated off, and was riding at anchor when the Life-boat arrived. Some of the Life-boatmen boarded her, and found that she was leaking, and that her rudder was unshipped.

The Lowestoft tng, which was alongside, took her in tow, and with the assistance of the Life-boat in steering her, she was taken safely into harbour. She was bound from London to Goole, with wheat, and had seven persons on board..